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SOCIAL REVOLUTION 1950’s-1960’s. POSTWAR AMERICAN SOCIETY Eisenhower’s Domestic Policies (“Modern Republicanism”) fiscal conservatism and balanced budgets

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SOCIAL SOCIAL REVOLUTIONREVOLUTION

1950’s-1960’s1950’s-1960’s

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POSTWAR AMERICAN SOCIETY

Eisenhower’s Domestic Policies (“Modern Republicanism”) fiscal conservatism and balanced budgets modest legislative record

extended Social Security benefits raised the minimum wage Highway Act of 1956

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POSTWAR AMERICAN SOCIETY

Postwar Economic Boom expansion of consumer goods development of suburbs (Levittown)

two-car family rise of television

older manufacturing areas in the northeast declined

south and west begin to thrive

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POSTWAR AMERICAN SOCIETY

Development of Suburban Americaautomobiles and cheap gasolineemergence of shopping centers and

mallsdominance of television in shaping

social norms

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POSTWAR AMERICAN SOCIETY

Problems and criticism of suburbia and growth geographical separation of the extended family created narrow gender roles strain on public school systems criticism of middle class social values:

forced conformity, loss of individuality emptiness of consumerist society continued racial and ethnic discrimination

Beatniks (Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, etc.)

emergence of rock and roll (Elvis Presley)

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LEAVE IT TO BEAVER

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OZZIE AND HARRIET

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BEATNIKS

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ELVIS PRESLEY

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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Causes: impact of World War II

war effort altered the roles of black Americans incentive to preserve gains during the war

Truman desegregates US military (1948) Brown v Board of Education of Topeka,

Kansas (1954) “separate but equal” educational facilities are

unconstitutional orders the desegregation of American public schools

“with all deliberate speed”

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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Southern movement: destroy legal segregation (Jim Crow system) strategies and organizations:

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

legal and political advocacy/lobbying Southern Christian Leadership Conference

(SCLC), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Congress of Racial Equality (CORE

philosophy of nonviolence and civil disobedience

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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Northern movement: 1964-1969—300 race riots in the US

June 1964 (Harlem, NY) August 1965 (Watts neighborhood in LA) July 1967 (Detroit, MI)

Black power movement attack institutionalized racism Nation of Islam (Malcolm X) Black Panthers

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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Conflict within the movement general agreement on goals arguments over strategies and tactics who should be leading the movement?

SCLC vs. SNCC disconnect between rural, black Southerners

and urban, black Northerners overt vs. institutional racism

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ROY WILKINS

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MEDGAR EVERS

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THURGOOD MARSHALL

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DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

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REV. RALPH DAVID ABERNATHY

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ANDREW YOUNG

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JAMES FORMAN (SNCC)

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BOB MOSES (SNCC)

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JOHN LEWIS

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JAMES FARMER (CORE)

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MALCOLM X

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BOBBY SEALE AND HUEY NEWTON

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ELDRIGE CLEAVER

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CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES

school integration (enforcement of Brown) Central High Crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas

(1957) enrollment of James Meredith into the University

of Mississippi (1962) desegregation of the University of Alabama

(1963)

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GOV. ORVAL FAUBUS

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CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

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LITTLE ROCK

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GOV. ROSS BARNETT

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JAMES MEREDITH

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UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI

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UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

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CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES

desegregation of public facilities Montgomery Bus Boycott (Dec. 1955-November

1956) Greensboro Sit-ins (Feb. 1960) Freedom Rides (Spring 1961) Birmingham, AL (April 1963)

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GREENSBORO BOYS

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LUNCH COUNTER SIT-IN

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FREEDOM RIDES (1961)

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FREEDOM RIDES

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FREEDOM RIDES

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FREEDOM RIDES

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BULL CONNOR

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BIRMINGHAM

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BIRMINGHAM

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BIRMINGHAM

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BIRMINGHAM

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JFK TELEVISED CIVIL RIGHTS SPEECH

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BOMBING OF 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH (BIRMINGHAM)

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BIRMINGHAM FOUR

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CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES

political and legal rights March on Washington (August 28, 1963)

civil rights legislation Freedom Summer (1964)

voting rights Selma, AL (January 1965)

voting rights

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MARCH ON WASHINGTON

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FREEDOM SUMMER

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FREEDOM SUMMER

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SHERIFF JIM CLARK

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SELMA

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SELMA

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ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally ends the legal segregation system in the

South

Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlaws literacy tests, poll taxes, and other

means for disenfranchising black voters allows federal authorities to intervene in unfair

elections

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RISE OF THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT

nonviolent tactics destroyed segregation in the South, but they failed to address the institutional racism throughout the nation

for many in the inner cities of the North and West, change was too slow and too inconsequential

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BLACK POWER ORGANIZATIONS

Nation of Islam advocated racial separation and self defense defined blacks as God’s chosen people

Elijah Muhammed,Malcolm X, Louis Farakhan

Black Panthers (Oakland, CA) advocated self defense of black neighborhoods some advocated violence also promoted peaceful community activism

and set up schools Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldrige Cleaver

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ASSASSINATION OF DR. KING

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THE COUNTERCULTURE

Ideology of the Counterculture rejection of the middle class, white suburban social and cultural

values of the 1940’s-1950’s

individual freedom individual liberation from the dominant majority

culture escape the dehumanizing pressures of “technocracy” explore human consciousness through art, music, drugs

experimentation, and sexual freedom

political break the power of social, economic, and political elites

end the Vietnam War pursuit of racial and economic justice pursue gender equality

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ACTIVITIES OF THE COUNTERCULTURE

New Left—movement of radicalized college and university students

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) 1964—Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, CA) 1968-early 1970’s—antiwar protests

Oct. 1967—March on the Pentagon May 1970—Kent State

public perception was of chaos, disorder, and violence “Weathermen”—arson and bombings

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FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT

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FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT

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ANTIWAR PROTEST

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MARCH ON THE PENTAGON

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MARCH ON THE PENTAGON

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KENT STATE (1970)

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KENT STATE

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KENT STATE

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KENT STATE

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KENT STATE

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“PEOPLE’S PARK”

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THE WEATHERMEN

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ACTIVITIES OF THE COUNTERCULTURE

Cultural Revolution reject white, middle class, suburban social values forms of rebellion:

long hair flamboyant clothing disdain for traditional speech drug use/experimentation (pot, LSD, etc.) sexual liberation and experimentation rock and roll music

summer 1969—Woodstock festival (400,000 people)

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HIPPIE CULTURE

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HIPPIE CULTURE

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WOODSTOCK

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WOODSTOCK

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WOODSTOCK

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WOODSTOCK

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LYNDON JOHNSON’S GREAT SOCIETY

Goal was to eliminate inequality and racial injusticewar on poverty

Medicare healthcare for Americans 65 and older supplement Medicaid

federal education funding expansion of federal aid programs (welfare)

civil rights 1964 CR Act and 1965 VR Act focus on housing and employment discrimination